Showing posts with label the common cold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the common cold. Show all posts

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Zinc Drugs Are ‘Particularly Effective’ Cold Treatments: Study

Drugs with zinc have been found to be “particularly effective” at treating symptoms of the common cold, a new study published in The Cochrane Library has found.The study, which encompassed 15 different randomized, controlled trials of nearly 1,400 people, compared the results of cold medicine containing zinc to a placebo without zinc.The researchers concluded that participants who took a